Dr. Nirosha Murugan is an early-career interdisciplinary scientist, Distinguished Research Chair and an Assistant Professor with a strong passion for research and teaching. From a top-down approach, her lab combines principles and state-of-the-art approaches from neuroscience, regenerative medicine, and cancer biology, to investigate how cancer cell fate can be reprogrammed into healthy cells using regenerative microenvironments, and in turn, how cancer microenvironments can modulate the function of distant organ systems such as the brain to induce cancer-related cognitive and neurological impairments. Her expertise in biomedical engineering and biophysics have allowed me to secure highly competitive research funding to develop new and innovative technologies.